Today, yet another American city is left reeling in the aftermath of a devastating and record-breaking mass shooting. From the 32nd floor of his hotel room, a 64-year-old gunman with at least 19 firearms in his possession, at least one of which was an automatic weapon, fired indiscriminately into a crowd of concertgoers in Las Vegas. While the human toll of this tragedy has risen throughout the day, at present—with 59 lives lost and more than 500 injured—this tragic event has already surpassed last year’s nightclub shooting at Pulse in Orlando as the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.
Too many of these shameful records have been broken in the last decade. In fact, all but three of the most deadly mass shootings in the country’s history have taken place in the last 10 years. Still, it is important to remember that this constant state of crisis is neither normal nor inevitable.
According to our research, Nevada’s gun laws are some of the weakest in the nation. Despite passing a 2016 ballot initiative requiring background checks on private ...
